The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 27

it THE IDAHO SUNDAY STATESMAN BOISE IDAHO SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 17 1960 PAGE NINE quet Friday night The program will open Monday with the traditional cross-cut and saw-chain saw race on the campus CLASSIFIED FOR RESULTS Does anyone think for a moment that a really popular songwriter would settle independently for the infinitestiman sum per performance represented by such an ASCAP license? If the society were ever dis Forestry College At University Sets Observance MOSCOW JP Special events are planned next week at the University of Idaho on a theme of "Full Development and Use of Forest and Range Lands" The activities are part of the College of Forestry's annual ob Hollywood Today Tony Sees Dual Role For Stars HOLLYWOOD "Hollywood has been like a sick child you must give medicine that tastes bad" said star CHARM PAYETTE SUN-MON-TUES servance of forestry week dio- ALUS ARTISTS solved (as some of its detractors appear to wish) the result would be utter chaos in the entire field of commercial entertainment The "big shots" would be justified in putting prohibitive prices on their work while the "little fellows" might with equal justice give away their creations free of charge merely for the sake of a public hearing (The copyright law says nothing about amounts to be paid for the use of protected music for profit but simply stipulates that such use is legal only with the permission of the iunu or the claimed by Gov Robert Smy-lie Virlus Fisher Las Vegas New nationallv-known conser Ufrrr Cf muo ill bii ALLiunja Tony Curtis "But" he add- vationist will speak at a ban-! ClNIKAScOPf 5 mjm ed "it will make Holly- wood better" Geoege Montgomery Tony one of FULL-LENGTH FUN SHOW ants should be between 17 and 28 years of age (deducting time spent in military service) and the competition is open to all nationalities Past winners have included Sydney Foster Van I the most articulate members of the Screen Actors Guild was referring ANGIE DICKINSON provides the heart interest in Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" which also stars John Wayne Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson The technicolor western starts Wednesday at the Vista Theater Cliburn Gary Graffmani mutkis rugene lsiomm and jonn Browning to the recent closing of the mainr studios GRAHAM Varieties Music for Everybody The President's Music com by his union in the hassle for mittee is asking for contribu AN AUIED AtTISTS PICTURE Extended and Exclusive RUN STARTS WED copyright owners) That great copyright expert the late Nathan Burkan one of the founders of ASCAP predicted that the society could never be destroyed from without but only from within Those members who are now-working so assiduously against their own interests always have the privilege of resigning Ironically the consent decree assures them of a continuation of performance royalties even after resignation Meanwhile the public should be aware of the facts and recognize the absolute necessity of an organization that not only upholds the vital copyright law but makes it as easy and practical as possible for those who find it profitable to use copyright music in their business Public Members Also Misunderstand ASCAP tions of used instruments sheet music and teaching materials of all kinds for distribution in countries where they are badly needed Address Ralph Black executive director 734 Jackson Place Washington 5t Cina LollobpjgicaIPI SAVOIR FAIRE is displayed by these stars In "Who Was That Lady?" now playing at the Boise Theater Co-starring along with New York's Empire State building are left to right Dean Martin Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh By SIGMUND SPAETH Sheba The American Society of The New York Citv Rallpr a pension plan and a percentage of the post-'60 profits if and when these movies are sold to television I was visiting Tony in his gorgeous 18-room mansion in Beverly Hills a small shout away from the magnificent estate of Mary Pickford's Pick-fair Tony calls his place Camp Curtis himself head Counselor as "Uncle Tony" and wife Janet Leigh is Camp Mother "Aunt Janet" It was at Camp Curtis that some of the meetings were held which led to the first actors' strike in the history of Hollywood To Camp Curtis come all members of The Clan Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Peter Lawford Shirley Mac- Composers Authors and Pub Theater Letter lishers commonly known as TtocNcowe repeats the new "Figure in the! Carpet" April 19 followed by another Pan-America Night April 20 Maureen O'Haraj opens in the new musical comedy "Christine" at the 46th! Street Theater April 21 contents and troublemakers within the organization itself some of whom are even now carrying their supposed grievances into the courts The irony of the situation is that the present governmental control of the society's affairs has definitely improved matters for those members demanding a recognition scarcely justified either commercially or in terms of prestige A long standing complaint has concerned ASCAP still seems to be isunderstood not only by the general public but strange to say by a number of its own Says No-Reading Rule Helps Play Reviewer CENTRE -ONTARIO SUN-MON-TUES ALL LAUGH SHOW "MA fir PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI" Plus "Francis In The Navy" When a singer is asked to interpret the most difficult contemporary concert music the choice generally falls on Marni Nixon who did just that for Leonard Bernstein and composer Pierre Boulez in a recent series of the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall This versatile soDrano also sun-1 rs At the recent an Lame et al Camp Curtis has its own stationery special shirts and caps for the 70 members who include Kirk Douglas Debbie nua 1 meeting Open 12:45 25e 50c 60c All DISNEY Color Program the "weighted vote" whereby members of high rank (as determined by the value of their 'contributions to the available li of this enor mously impor SrAETH Alvin theater Greenwillow and all its odd folks and customs are presented ready-made and some of the imaginativeness may have gone out of them I prefer the town of Brigadoon which took shape before my eyes nine years ago when two young hunters crossed a bridge STARTS WED DICK CLARK 'Because They're Young' Poby Tyler plied the off-screen singing voice of Deborah Kerr in the tant organization speeches were made from the floor that revealed both ignorance and viciousness on the with a CIRCUS film version of "The Kins? and! By JOHN CHAPMAN NEW It is one of my rules never to read a book if it is going to be made into a play or musical And I don't read novels any more except paperback whodunits as tranquilizers How was I to know when I read Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography that they were going to make Ethel Merman's "Gypsy" out of it? I didn't read Chute's "Greenwillow" so I went to the Frank Loesser-Lesser Samuels musical of that name with an open mind and In private life Marni Nixon! is the wife of Ernest Gold the into another world and another Reynolds Jack Lemmon and director Billy Wilder Director George Sidney donated a bulletin board and posted on it each week is a camp newsletter Sinking into the white inch-deep carpets and after seeing the huge swimming pool I decided it was the most luxurious camp in America if not the world It cost Tony $300000 part of certain individuals apparently bent on wrecking their own most dependable source of CORCORAN SHELDON Hollywood composer at present writing the background music for the motion i I time Anthony Perkins is appealing as the young wanderer come Mister STUBBS home and he sings persuasively "Exodus" He recently completed the score for "Inherit mm brary of copyrighted music) have exercised a greater influence in decisions and elections than those whose works are of comparatively little significance It is no secret that out of a membership of over 4000 professional writers of words and music only about 100 are in such commercial demand as to compel observance of the copyright law on the part of those using their creations for profit Under the new consent decree these automatic leaders whose "weighted" votes formerly ran into the thousands are now limited to 100 votes apiece (Apparently this decision has escaped the attention of some of those who are still wailing over in a ught pleasant voice William Chapman and Cecil Kel- income under the copyright law Actually the "consent decree" under which the society is currently operating (the third of its kind in the past 20 years) was brought about largely through the complaints of mal- But Tony can afford it His came away puzzled Somehow I laway are splendid as a pair of the Wind" and was nominated for an "Oscar" for his musical contribution to "On The Beach" A talented couple the Golds! failed to come to grips with the fanciful story or it didn't come to grips with me So I promised myself I'd go back to see if I'd been a chucklehead TONIGHT Ideal Family Show FOR MOM AND DAD preachers who oddly share the same pulpit Chapman a first-rate opera singer as a fierce unbending Puritan and Kella-way as a jolly fellow who finds pleasure even in the existence Entries for the Leventritt award for young pianists are now being received at the office of the foundation 645 Madison avenue New York City with May 31 as a deadline Contest- TECHNICOLOR CARTOON f-EATURCTTE and Disney's "Hawaiian Holiday" Matinees Friday through Monday The no-reading rule developed through experience has worked well This way one hasn't any percentage of the movie with Marilyn Monroe "Some Like It Hot" has already earned him close to a million dollars And except for the three films he owes Universal for a total $225-000 the former barefoot boy from the Bronx has percentage deals on every picture he makes He is also in business for himself "Curtleigh Productions" with wife Janet "My TV show for Ford Startime The Young Juggler' was made bv Curtleigh" said Tony "I did this because I wanted to produce a TV show on my own The first film for my own company will be 'Draw Sabres' But first I do The Best of the Big Pictures contained youngsters as well as oldsters They all had come to have a good time not to yoo-hoo at each other and they were having one They were attentive and appreciative and all in their seats several minutes before the curtain went up Abba Bogin's orchestra helped build a good-time atmosphere just by noodling They were warming up the audience not their instruments and I recommend this practice for all musicals After my second inspection Fram M-G-M I of the devil These two characters are the most persuasive in "Greenwillow" and they have a delightful number in which they share a sermon Ellen McCown is a sweet girl for Perkins to come home to and there is some salty comedy by Pert Kelton But the real show-stopper is a very small urchin named John Megna who gets caught up in a Halloween frolic and dances with a devil He is a stout fella and is hav metro- an Dwvw- preconceptions the play stands alone as a play as it should Moreover it isn't as much fun to see something if you know beforehand what is going to happen the edge of discovery is dulled The time to read the book is after one has seen the play for the added pleasure of learning just how skillful and sensitive the adapter has been I went back for a rehearing It's All About Fun on the Family Plan and a sjCv discrimination against the "little One suggestion made at the ASCAP meeting was that every member be paid a flat fee every time one of his compositions is used for profit This would of course nullify the greatest benefit of ASCAP to the commercial users of copyrighted music which is in issuing blanket licenses permitting unlimited use of the society's catalogue The Great Imposter' then 0RIS Hilarious Guide to a Slap-Happy Marriage 4Lady L-2' with Gina Lollobrig WINNER OF 9 ACADEMY AWARDS BEST PICTURE Ida Both for major studios" Currently in release is "Who ing the time of his life Bruce MacKay does some robust singing as Perkins' father who put the wand'rin' curse on all his offspring and I wish he had more to sing On my second visit to "Greenwillow" I found something I'd never have expected a good of "Greenwillow" I fell to thinking of the wonderful other-world places I'd been in the theater Brigadoon the ship of "Outward Bound" the other side of the looking glass with Alice Peter Pan's Never Never Land the Star Keeper's abode in "Carousel" the grandish place of "Finian's Rainbow" De of the first act of "Greenwillow" Again I found it charming filled with pleasant song played by an admirable company and lovely to see But it struck me that Peter Larkin in designing his airy sets had come closer to maintaining the fantasy than the adapters had It didn't seem important enough IAViD remember this affecting romance done in 1929 in which Leslie Howard stepped out of the present and into a London home in the year 1784 where he fell in love with a girl who was to die three years later It was OF TIE liVENf FOR THE KIDS benefit audience You could have knocked me over with a to me that Anthony Perkins had Lawd's firmament in "The Green Pastures" And I bethought me of a play which shucked oil a wanderer curse so lasting a love that it still burned warmly when the young man found himself back among us in 1929 Rodgers and Ham-merstein could do this one Or Lerner and Loewe and come home to Greenwillow and found a girl Nor was I in riddleweed The benefit was for the Madison Square Boys' club The audience was classier and dressier than the first-nighters and it would make a lovely lovely mu the first hearing as concerned as I should be over the trouble sical John Balderston "Berkeley Square" Some may Was That Lady?" His "Rat Race" with Debbie Reynolds comes out this summer and "Spartacus" in which Tony played a small role to use up one of his commitments at U-I will be premiered in December The 33-year-old star agreed that the end result of the actors' strike has been to hasten the turning of the major studios into financing and releasing companies for independent producers like himself "And that's a good thing There will be no waste no overhead Yes the incompetent people will be out of jobs but that's the nature of any business Take a secretary and we were accused of throwing a lot out of work during the strike if she's a good secretary she'll always get a job "The idea of independent producers who are also actors is KlNG that comes between boy and girl The love story didn't take hold but all the rest of it was 6u1l Never Get Qyer wnn fine This may be one time that I the rUN and ssssms Stallions should have read the book first Undoubtedly Miss Chute with plenty of room on her pages LAUGHTER of I UcDWXAl £GCR0SBY set the quality the style of the fantasy She had plentv of time mm tab 5 9 to create her town on the banks of the Meander river and invent her own folk-lore like "tread- JANiS PAIGE SPRIK6 BYINBTON Both Pictures Rate High for All the Family Open 7:15 Starts 7:45 First Show "G'GI" HLIXV YIN Likera ingena I 9 3P' 8ugh rocketr I iKl JY9 shore jfy leiuumy iiwt new XL was Start- inr on a rirlrilmxrcori i or mer ed by Mary Pickford Douglas site wpnt Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin along But on the stage of the FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT IN TECHNICOLOR Doors Opj 12:45 jkMf Till 2 PM Then 1 :05 3:05 5:05 08 100 7:05 9:05 ffff MW JT 50c-75c Children 25e five years ago "The Continental look is American in origin we only borrowed the cutaway front from the Europeans" he declared The future? "Tight sleeves are coming (Tony already has them) And the new tux adds a taste of Latin-American style a strong feeling of Mexico" Every time I see Tony I absorb some of his boundless energy good nature good looks and the obvious happiness of his career and family life with Janet and their two young daughters When they have a son there will be nothing more for Tony to want The good ones survived the bad went under That's the law of business Of the 420 films last year only 36 came from the major studios anyway and 27 were unsuccessful When Universal was in trouble seven years ago and Milt Rackmill took over none of the other majors came to his assistance Now he is doing better than any of them" U-I was the first to sign with the actors "Where did Metro make the biggest picture of all time 'Ben-Hur'?" Tony continued "In Hollywood to give employment here? Not on your life In Italy But when an actor Kirk Douglas spent $11000000 on a picture 'Spartacus' he made it in Hollywood When all the smoke settles down you will see we will all be better off" Now I'd like you to meet Mr Curtis the style setter in Hollywood Tony has one of the largest wardrobes in these parts with dozens of everv kind of HELD OVER! TONIGHT Gala Easter Show Open 7:15 Adults $1 Start 7:45 Kids Free JERRY PADY TflllY may THE BROADWAY HIT-NOW THE SCREEN'S CRAZIEST LARK! vmu ivni GRANT-CURTIS feMNfMK Emm kiMlw Sum Sw kw A Piiunen PidBK DOORS OPEN 12:45 PrVL Of? Adults 75c til 2 nv time i Then 100 Children 35c GUFFAW GUARANTEE If you can watch this picture and NOT laugh -your money will be refunded! suit sports outfit sweaters and! shoes Like Jerry Lewis he be-' longs to the high-collar school "I think men should take the same interest and time in se-j lecting clothes as women do and the clothes a man wears should! indicate his own individual! taste" said Tonv "I believe the' fashion should fit the personal- ity Each man must experiment and come up with something a little unique all his own It's the only way to find out what really suits him" Tony reminded me that he began wearing the current so-called Italian look in tight trousers more than For Your Easter Holiday Enjoyment STARTS TODAY (Ends Saturday) and introducing NOBU MARGO DICK -OPERATION PETTICOAT" Eastman COLOR It's I Th The ERNIE KOVACS- MOORE-WARDEN MARTHY- SHAWN Most orQHTAIttO OfNJEfviAScOPE COLOR by DE LUXE Uproariously Funny Movie You'll Sec In 1960 NOW SHOWING 2 THEATERS DRIVE-IN CQIbMllA riCTUKS prr TONY CURTIS DEAN MARTIN JANET LEIGH Big First-Run Co-Hit DOORS DOOFS OPEN 1 OPEN 1 1 RIALTO THEATRE OPEN DAILY 12:45 IN DOWN TOWN BOISE Added Joy: Walt Disney's True Life "Cruise of the Eagle BROADWAY DRIVE-IN OPEN 7:15 HI WAY 30 EAST OF BOISE 2nd FEATURE "Riot in juvenile Prison" Is Happy to Announce the Opening of Its BOUNCE O'RAM A TRAMPOLINE CENTER Saturday April 23 10 am FREE Balloons FREE Popsicles Sign Up for a FREE Trampoline to Be Given Away May 14 AN ANSAftK-GEOGt SIDNEY WOCUCTlCN i Color Cartoon Mr McGoo in "Ragtme tf FEUCIA FARI Adults 75c 'til 2-00 Then 100 Children 25c i.